Thank you martha. As he indicated the jury has just been dismissed and now we wait for President Trump this after Michael Cohen undergoes a grooming crossexamination and as you put it it was tough for the guy tuesday. This was super tough today. What will he have to neil say about it . We know he wants to speak and will speak momentarily and we will take you there live when he does. Welcome everyone im neil cavuto happy to have you. A lot of big news to tell you about including some records made and all of a sudden unmade. But first outside the courthouse today latest on what went down today. Nate. Reporter Hey Neil The Court is over for the day, at least the jury has been brought out. Still dealing with a couple things we will talk about momentarily but the crossexamination of Michael Cohen will stretch into next week, at least monday. You mention an intense day in court at the end of court today. Cohen acknowledged he never had a Retainer Agreement while working for former President
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Getting better any time soon. 3. 5 Million People on the island are without power. The conditions have eased a little bit. Winds below 50 miles per hour. The rain is still falling. At least right now First Responders and police can go out to assess the damage and help those that need it. We saw first winds ripping through here, enough to snap the trees behind me, enough to knock walls down, pieces of the hotel behind me off. It was just whipping around. Right now we have seen electrical crews go out as well. Off and on foot. Theres so much debris in the roads. Very hard to get around with downed power lines and downed trees. Theyre trying to assess things by foot. The next concerns will be flooding. Either flooding from rivers or perhaps mudslides in the central part of the country. Recovery here is not easy and not quick. People are still out of power from Hurricane Irma two weeks ago. Could be weeks or months before this island begins to get back on its feet. Neil, back to you. Thank
Getting grilled over whether the president has authority to strike. Were on top of it. Im neil cavuto. Were moments away from speaking to rand paul, a republican lawmaker that was grilling mike pompeo over whether we should be going to syria. First, rich edson on capitol hill with the latest on the back and forth. What are you hearing, rich . It was senator paul that led that exchange with the cia director mike pompeo regarding what the u. S. Authority is, what the president s authority is as to whether he has the right to strike syria without congressional authorization. The last time that congress dealt with any type of war authorization was back after 911. So pauls point was that no, this shouldnt be the case. This isnt a blank check to start a war. Mike pompeo said that as a Surgical Strike is concerned, previous administrations have done so and this administration could do so. This hearing touched on a number of different subjects including from democrats who were pushing this ide
Comey replied that he expected loyalty and i did not reply or nod or change my facial expression. I replied he would get honesty from me. Thats what trump wants. Honest loyalty and i replied you will get that from me. The relationship from comey and the president was stressed after comey briefed trump on the so called dossier. And mr. Trump tells comey to find out if there is any evidence of collusion with russia. Comey writes if there is a satellite, i took it to mean an associate or campaign if they did something it would be finding out and hoped a way would get out that they were not investigating him. And he went out of his way to avoid Sensitive Information so the memos could be widely shared. If i write in a way that i dont trigger classification it would be able to make it discussed within the fbi and government and hold on to a way that is accessible to us. Reporter that tell is at odds with the cuomo memo documenting a memo and january 17th, and he acknowledged dealing with cl